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seal one's fate



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Idioms and Phrases

Decide what will become of one, as in The letter of rejection sealed his fate; he'd have to apply to other medical schools . This term employs seal in the sense of “permanently fix or fasten something,” a usage dating from the mid-1600s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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